The Reluctant Bride by Greenwood Leigh

Author:Greenwood, Leigh [Greenwood, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ten Talents Press
Published: 2011-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

Tanzy undressed slowly, mechanically, her mind elsewhere. Russ’s kiss worried her. It upset her that a man as strong, determined, and successful as Russ would be so grateful that someone could believe in him. Something truly awful must have happened to make him so thankful for a little bit of praise. She wasn’t saying he was a hero or anything. Yet he’d kissed her like a man desperately eager to find a reason to believe in himself.

Then there was the kiss itself. Never mind his reasons for it; what about her reasons for letting him kiss her, for kissing him back? Was she just grateful he’d rescued her from an uncertain future, or was it more than that?

She’d already admitted she was attracted to him, but now she liked him. She empathized with him. She also admired him and was grateful to him. With all those feelings mixed up together, it was hard to separate out the pieces and decipher just what each meant.

Still, it wasn’t the common practice to go around kissing people you admired, at least not like Russ had kissed her. And even if western men did do that, she shouldn’t have been so willing to melt into his embrace. She couldn’t deny that was exactly what had happened. If the kiss had lasted much longer, she might have dissolved entirely. She wasn’t sure whether she was grateful or angry about Tardy’s interruption.

That in itself was another sign that something was wrong. She always knew her own mind, never had any problem articulating how she felt, never vacillated or changed.

Things were different out here. Maybe a person had to be ready to change her mind, look at things in a different way. But flexibility could be dangerous, too. A person who swapped her principles every few weeks would soon have no principles at all. Maybe she needed to learn to interpret her principles a little differently, apply them with more latitude, not break anything but bend a little.

She wasn’t going to decide anything tonight. She was too tired. Too much had happened. She understood too little. She needed to sleep, to clear her mind. Tomorrow she’d figure out what to do.

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